7 Reasons You Need to Have a Squidoo Lens

I'm gonna get right to it here.

1) It's a simple way to generate tons of free, laser-targeted traffic to your website. The way Squidoo is set up you can create a lens on any number of topics. In my case I want to use Squidoo to market myself and help brand myself as a leader in the Internet markting community. But you could just as easily market your plumbing business, consulting business, etc. And the beauty of Squidoo is that you'll be talking to those that are interested in your topic.

2) You can upload videos into your lens. This is an awesome tool for generating massive traffic and more views to your lens.

3) You have the ability to integrate your RSS feed to your lens so it updates every time you update content on your blog, website, etc.

4) It gives you instant credibility and helps you to brand yourself as an expert. I can't stress how important this is to your Internet marketing success. Personal branding will set you apart from all the other marketers that are constantly shoving their product down a prospects throat.

5) It takes probably five minutes to set up and it's completely free.

6) You can earn royalties from the traffic you generate. You'll have the ability to set this up in your account settings, but it's a great way to help fund paid marketing you'll need to do.

7) You also have the ability to earn affilitate commissions by promoting other products on your lens. Again, this is a fantastic way to fund paid marketing strategies and hopefully put some money in your pocket!

Here's a few more quick tips for your Squidoo lens:

-Add as many keywords as you can that are related to your topic.
-Add several streams of income through promoting affiliate products on your lens.
-Make more than one lens and link them to each other.
-Use social bookmarking sites like Digg & Stumbleupon to bookmarke your posts.
-Add Twitter to your lens by using the Twitter modules-people that see your lens can also start following you on Twitter.

Squidoo can be an unreal resource for new marketers and especially those that are working on a tight budget. It can give you the ability to not only market your service, but also earn affiliate commissions which help to fund paid marketing strategies that will explode your business even further!

The key is to take action, don't get caught getting ready to get ready! Take action, NOW!